On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 23:03, notify@aur.archlinux.org <notify@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:
MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for postgresql-12 [2]:
This legacy PostgreSQL v12 (first released in 2019) fails to build on current Arch Linux.
As mentioned in the comments, this package indeed does not build recently due to a breaking change in libxml2, but could probably be easily fixed with a patch if any users are interested in submitting one (I don't actually personally use this package any more). I am not sure if this situation warrants a deletion or not tbh.
It is also not a drop-in replacement for [extra] repo's postgresql 16.
Not sure what you mean by this, older versions of repo packages are common on the AUR.
I don't think this is useful to keep.
Users should upgrade their databases for a newer PostgreSQL major version.
Upstream support ends this coming November which would be the deadline for users still on 12, until then it may still be useful to people, since people still complain when it doesn't build. That said, I'm not against deletion if no patch appears for a while.
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/postgresql-12/